Ah, then, how can we get an amendment made to the 
ADA? It's ludicrous not to include the Internet, 
as much as it's absolutely taken over many aspects 
of business and life services offered. ;-)

Strive On!
Everett


----- Original Message ----- 
> From Googling a bit, it's my understanding that 
> AOL and Target settled out of court and agreed 
> to make their web sites accessible. I'm assuming 
> they did this to avoid potentially losing these 
> cases in court and to avoid any further negative 
> press from these cases. A judge never ruled in 
> these cases that the ADA applied to web sites.
>
> Again from Googling around a bit, Southwestern 
> Airlines apparently won their law suit and did 
> not have to make their web site accessible. The 
> judge actually ruled in this case that the ADA 
> does not apply to web sites. The ADA lists what 
> it applies to, and the internet is not 
> specifically mentioned, creating this 
> uncertainty. The Southwestern Airlines case 
> obviously creates a bad precedent that other 
> companies will be able to refer to if they're 
> ever sued over the accessibility of their web 
> sites.
>
> Web sites are even more important now to 
> companies and shoppers, plus there are more 
> guidelines on accessibility out there, including 
> what a company has to do to comply with section 
> 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, so even though 
> there is a bad precedent out there, I think it's 
> still considered generally unclear if the ADA 
> applies to web sites or not, but I think it's 
> trending in that direction and just waiting for 
> some clearer wording and regulations.
>


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